Elizabeth Catlett Quotes

#1. "I was born in the US and l have lived in Mexico since 1946. I believe that all these states of being have influenced my work and made it what you see today. I am inspired by Black people and Mexican people, my two peoples. My art speaks for both my peoples" ~ Elizabeth Catlett

Melanie Anne Herzog

#2. His affection for his car was a fine debatable line between uncomfortable obsession and a deep love.

Rebecca Ethington

#3. Lane writes that we are paying for increased affluence and increased freedom with a substantial decrease in the quality and quantity of social relations.

Barry Schwartz

#4. Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

Daniel Keyes

#5. In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

Henry David Thoreau

#6. There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

Alexandre Dumas

#7. your gaze
across
my cheeks

turned them
into
strawberry fields.

Sanober Khan

#8. There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.

Vladimir Putin

#9. I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States,

Elizabeth Catlett

#10. Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.

Elizabeth Catlett

#11. How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.

Tatiana De Rosnay

#12. The nation which forgets it defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge

#13. I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

Elizabeth Catlett

#14. Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Sydney Smith

#15. When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

Matthew Lillard

#16. Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.

Martin Luther

#17. In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John McCain laughed and said, What an idiot! It's 'The Tweeter.'

Conan O'Brien

#18. The best training program in the world is absolutely worthless without the will to execute it properly, consistently, and with intensity.

John Romaniello

#19. You're my friend," Chris whispered back, and his other hand came up so he could rub Xander's lower lip with his thumb. "That makes you beautiful.

Amy Lane